Be Kind & Merciful have filed a new zoning application with the city of Springfield for the latest iteration of their plans for the corner of Sunshine Street and National Avenue in the University Heights neighborhood sbj.net/stories/bkm-... New reporting by Springfield Business Journal:

Yet more exclusive news reporting by your Business Authority, Springfield Business Journal: sbj.net/stories/orei...

Our current cover story checks on a Branson development plan worth hundreds of millions, which would include 150 multi-family residential units, a Bible Encounter attraction and a 200-room hotel – just in phase 1 sbj.net/stories/bran... #BusinessAuthority

This may be the only news report on yesterday's City Utilities board of directors meeting. The board voted to approve CU's latest 20-year power supply plan, which addresses demand, regulations and carbon emissions. Your SBJ Business Authority reports: sbj.net/stories/city...

In today's morning newscast, Springfield's new city manager prompts a divided City Council, a new director of the Christian County Library is announced, an abortion ban is back on in Missouri and lawmakers are going back for a special session www.ksmu.org/show/weekday...

In Springfield, a divided City Council votes to hire current Republic city administrator David Cameron to serve as Springfield’s next city manager for $350K per year www.ksmu.org/news/2025-05... @ksmu #nopaywall

Utah Tech University recently completed an investigative report into allegations of misconduct by its former president, Richard “Biff” Williams. Here's what we know: www.ksmu.org/news/2025-05... via @ksmu #nopaywall

4-4 vote, "no writing from the justices here"

Happy 179th birthday to the @AP!

Breaking from NPR this hour: Following tense negotiations inside the Republican Party, the U.S. House has passed the GOP megabill containing President Trump's domestic agenda for his second term. The vote was 215-214 www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

Quick thread of several new stories from @ksmu

Longtime former SWMO Congressman Billy Long testified in a Senate confirmation hearing for the Trump administration's IRS commissioner job today. We have a recap spot from Michele Skalicky coming up at 5:32 on KSMU & streaming — or watch all 2-plus hours with PBS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=blVU...

The weather was stormy last night, with a tornado watch while Springfield City Council's meeting was in progress. Just five area residents turned out for a public hearing to comment on Springfield's likely new city manager, to be paid at $350,000 per year www.ksmu.org/news/2025-05...

The latest in the search for a new city manager for Springfield www.ksmu.org/news/2025-04... @ksmu #nopaywall

Nonpartisan races for Springfield school board and city council? Here are some recent communications from Greene County Republicans and Greene County Democrats about the election

My colleague Chris Drew has this report on the Trump administration's decision to drastically cut back the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The federal agency most recently awarded Missouri just over $3 million. From KSMU with #nopaywall

Campaign finance from the two candidates running for Springfield mayor show a lopsided money race. New from @ksmu, with no paywall: www.ksmu.org/news/2025-04...

In their own words: Candidates for Springfield mayor, city council speak out at Ozarks Tech drop-in event. The election is next Tuesday

Some KSMU Springfield school board coverage ahead of the April 8 election www.ksmu.org/news/2025-03...

Breaking news from KCUR: KCMO city manager fired after the city lost a whistleblower lawsuit three weeks ago

It's Informed Voter Coaltion season! Today we have interviews with the candidates running for Ozark mayor: Eddie Campbell, Donald Currence and David Snider www.ksmu.org/show/informe...

Some pretty significant reporting on the state budget out from our news collab partners at Missouri Independent

From our coverage of last night's meeting: Years in the making, Springfield City Council adopts new land development code inspired by Forward SGF plan

Happy Giving Day! Today we're asking that #BearsGive to help @ksmu update some of the ol' equipment givingday.missouristate.edu/giving-day/9...

Texas-based @bucees is suing a Marshfield, Missouri dog park and coffee shop business known as Barc-ee's. New from @ksmu

Today's morning local newscast includes a new retail development in Ozark, the state auditor's take on how well the Missouri Department of Revenue is doing in collecting taxes from cannabis, updates on the Jefferson Avenue footbridge, a new Netflix documentary about the Joplin tornado and more.

Today's morning local newscast, curated by KSMU's Chris Drew — reporting on storm cleanup, fire risks in the region, allergy season and more. www.ksmu.org/show/weekday... #nopaywall

NPR, KCUR and St. Louis Public Radio have really led public media coverage of the recent tornado outbreak New reporting out this morning:

New reporting out this week from Missouri Independent as the Kehoe administration makes changes to DSS management

New reporting from NPR today

"They just didn’t have the help they needed when things got rough." Interesting reporting out today from St. Louis Public Radio

Today's local morning newscast from KSMU: Reporting on some of the impact from Friday’s storms, recent protests outside our local Veterans Affairs office, a new Creamery Arts Center program, and more:

It's Sunshine Week! Missouri Independent has this report today on how some state agencies can take years, not just three business days, to fulfill open records requests by the public as required by state law

Curated by host and reporter Chris Drew, today's KSMU morning local newscast has updates on tax bills in the Missouri House, the Missouri Supreme Court's hearing on Prop A and a report on the future of Springfield's Robberson school building. #nopaywall

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is doubling down on his demand that Planned Parenthood stop performing a type of abortion that its clinics aren’t actually offering patients. #moleg #mogov

New from me and KSMU this morning: Galloway neighborhood and the City of Springfield face another confrontation www.ksmu.org/news/2025-03...

Breaking News: Katie Porter will run for California governor. She is a prominent entrant to a race that Kamala Harris is also contemplating.

We've got some wonderful news today from KSMU and Missouri State University ahead of the 250th anniversary of American Independence news.missouristate.edu/2025/03/10/m...

Child sex abuse linked to Kanakuk camp near Branson, Missouri gets a thorough airing in this month’s D Magazine of Dallas, Texas

Reporting by our student news intern Becky Gardner made it to the airwaves on both KSMU and with our friends at KRPS in the Pittsburg-Joplin area. When you support Ozarks Public Radio, you're supporting students at Missouri's public affairs university — and communities across our giant SWMO region

NEW - After decades at McDonald’s, she took a job at the IRS in Kansas City. It was exactly the kind of work she wanted. She had just 3 weeks left in probation. She voted for Trump but says Musk has too much power My latest on the KC impacts of federal firings> www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Thursday was a campaign finance reporting deadline for Missouri candidates running for city offices on April 8. Here's what Missouri Ethics Commission reports show for candidates for Springfield mayor, city council: www.ksmu.org/news/2025-03... @ksmu #nopaywall

NPR/PBS/Marist have new polling out on the first month of the new presidency:

For Ozarks Public Radio, I checked in with NPR Midwest Newsroom's Kavahn Mansouri. Recently Kavahn embedded with rural Missouri volunteers as they worked to conduct HUD's annual "point-in-time count" of unhoused people. The count is almost certainly an undercount:

Child sex abuse survivors say NDAs are contracts that silence victims, shielding perpetrators and institutions. My reporting for @ksmu on a Branson GOP lawmaker's bill to restrict them:

The Vatican says Pope Francis's condition has worsened after a breathing crisis in hospital on Friday - two weeks after he was first admitted to hospital in Rome with bronchitis.

Today the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta released a forecast for Jan-March 2025 indicating their experts believe the U.S. economy will shrink by 1.5 percent. Previously they forecasted 2.3-percent growth buff.ly/3CSDWOO

A quick thread on SGF campaign finance: Yesterday at 5 p.m. was the deadline for 40-day-before-the-election campaign finance reports, from candidates running in Missouri on April 8. buff.ly/4khymMi

Today's morning newscast by @ksmu's Chris Drew features our news team's work reporting on Congressman Eric Burlison's latest efforts in D.C., body cams for Ozark Police Department, and plans for a sand and gravel mine in Christian County. Listen here:

Crucial reporting on how cuts to Medicaid could affect Missouri from Missouri Independent. 20 percent of all Missourians are on the low-income health program, and 40 percent of the state's children.